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Cricket match organisers will only have to adhere to Covid-19 SafeKey requirements if there are more than 275 people at a match at any one time, the Sports Minister confirmed yesterday.
The decision to lift the SafeKey requirement from 51 to 275 cam...
DATE: Jul 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Government overpaid $3.5 million in unemployment benefits during the Covid-19 lockdowns, the finance minister admitted yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said about 2,500 people – or one in four of those who received the benefit – were overpaid an average ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government has earned almost $5.5 million in fees generated from controversial travel authorisation forms, it has been revealed.
But it has also paid out more than $500,000 to the company that created the software to create the TAFs and to manage the...
DATE: Jul 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The US State Department today announced that Karen Grissette has been appointed as the next US Consul to Bermuda.
A career Foreign Service Officer of more than 20 years, Ms Grissette recently served as the Executive Director of the Fulbright Foreign ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Elsa, the first hurricane of the season, has formed in the Atlantic with its forecast path set to take it through the Caribbean this weekend, potentially looming over Florida by Tuesday.
At 6am, Elsa was 131 miles to the east of the Dominican Republi...
DATE: Jul 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
An Australian cryptocurrency mogul living in Bermuda is facing extradition to the US to face money laundering charges.
Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that Gregory Dwyer, a senior employee for the cryptocurrency derivative exchange platform BitMEX...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Mandatory hotel quarantining will be in place for at least another three months – despite claims by the Premier that the controversial policy could be ditched as soon as Bermuda achieves herd immunity from the Covid-19 virus.
David Burt made the pled...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government has delayed a decision on the fate of Bermuda’s primary schools by a month.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, had said the decision, which could include the permanent closure of up to eight primary schools, will now be announced at...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An Australian bitcoin executive facing criminal charges in the United States as part of a Department of Justice-led anti-money laundering inquiry was riding out the storm in Bermuda – until yesterday.
Nine months after he was accused of violating and...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A weeklong work dispute deadlock at a Southampton construction supplier SAL is said to be headed to the Labour Relations Department today.
Fifteen staff from SAL Southampton remained off the job all this week over what was said to be a threat to sack...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
